Although a closing date was announced the following day, spirits were soaring on opening night for the cast of Matthew Lombardo’s High, led by Golden Globe winner Kathleen Turner. Many…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 07:13PMMark Rylance's stunning performance is a distillation of what the English areVisionary Arthurian hero? Or trollish drug-dealer? Either way, the chameleon "Rooster" Byron – the central char…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMMark Rylance's part in the New York transfer of Jerusalem has been hailed as 'truly a performance for the ages'When Mark Rylance was spotted walking confidently down 45th Street in New York'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe artistic director of Regent's Park Open Air theatre on crashing a plane on to the set and why he hasn't abandoned ShakespeareTimothy Sheader, 38, is a theatre director from Scarborough. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterBrad Fraser's new play, commissioned by the Royal Exchange, seems as if what it really wants to be is an issue-based TV miniseries dealing with addiction among a gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThe celebrated German dancer and choreographer Pina Bausch died in June 2009 at the age of 68 just as she was to collaborate with her friend Wim Wenders on a 3D film about her life and her d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMNick Clegg is the unlikely hero of Nicked, a new musical that's unfashionably sympathetic to the Lib Dem leaderLeast likely contender for Spring Hit in Theatre-World, I think it's safe to sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMI Am Curious, Orange by Michael Clark Company, Sadler's Wells, London, 1988I take every opportunity to see Michael Clark dance, but his performance in I Am Curious, Orange stands out in my m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMI Am Curious, Orange by Michael Clark Company, Sadler's Wells, London, 1988I take every opportunity to see Michael Clark dance, but his performance in I Am Curious, Orange stands out in my m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMWith her performance in Cause Célèbre a sensation, and past roles as Joan of Arc, Margot Fonteyn and the spirited Fiona in Shameless, Britain's brightest theatre star won't sleep until she…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMHouse of Detention; Little Angel; Hampstead, all LondonMacbeth is this season's Shakespeare. David Morrissey will soon be strutting and fretting in his old Liverpool haunts and Jonathan Slin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMDonmar Warehouse, LondonIt's a minor mystery why the sure-footed Donmar has revived Harold Pinter's 1993 play at this time, unless as a sly hubristic reminder that giants too can, as their f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMCan you learn to be funny? Can you study humour and unlock its scientific formula? Alex Horne swaps the comedy circuit for the lecture hall in search of the science of laughter. Plus, Greg D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMFresh from BBC1's South Riding, the newly-bearded actor takes on the role of Macbeth in his home town of LiverpoolIn the Latimer Road area of west London, where the Range Rovers give way to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMThe Bard's enduring impact is all down to neural excitementYesterday was Shakespeare's 447th anniversary. As with almost everything else about our national poet, this is disputed. All we can…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMBelgrade theatre, CoventryIf this production had a meter attached marked at one end "sublime" and at the other "ridiculous", its needle would lunge between the extremes, barely registering m…
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59E59 Theatres, Off Off Broadway
By Le-Anne Garland
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BOTTOM LINE: A historical drama that lacks a strong story.
Until this year, many people had not heard of the Triangle Shirtwaist …
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 04:59PMAfter last week's remarkable string of raves, a comedown was probably inevitable. This past week had it all: There weren't just a lot of shrugs and pans on Broadway and off, but the season's…
SOURCE: StageGrade at 04:59PMHANSON perform their new song, Give a Little, during the one-hour special, Dancing with the Stars The Road to the Finals, TUESDAY, APRIL 26 800-900 p.m., ET. Within the live hour, the remain…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 04:48PMAre critics turning the page on "Reading Under the Influence"?
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Booth Theatre, Broadway
By Weston Clay
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BOTTOM LINE: A poorly conceived Broadway show with a bad prognosis and a big star.
You’re going to have to scramble if you want to see Kathl…
SOURCE: Theatre is Easy at 01:09PM“War Horse” is a touching love story between a boy and his horse, it is a shocking war story, but above all, it is a breathtaking work of stagecraft, employing theatrical ingenuity at th…
SOURCE: The Faster Times at 01:08PMOn Friday April 22nd GLEE's own Darren Criss appeared at the Grove LA to sign copies of his new album GLEE The Music Presents The Warblers. The appearance drew a crowd of over 500 screaming …
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This Clifford Odets play debuted in NYC at the Belasco Theatre in 1935. To me, it's a little "slice of life" kind of action, where you're dropped into the world of this lower-middle-cl…
SOURCE: St. Louis Theatre Snob at 12:48PMBroadway Impact participated in HRC's Pop Up Video Day on April 17, 2011. New Yorkers, including members of the Broadway community, came out to film their own marriage equality video.
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 12:18PMSinger-songwriter Jack Clement joined the cast of Broadway’s Million Dollar Quartet April 21 to perform his original song, “It’ll Be Me,” made famous by Jerry Lee Lew…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:16PM
Douglas Alan-Mann, the former artistic director of the Chicago Theatre Company died Friday, his longtime friend and colleague David Barr III said on Satuday. Alan-Mann had fought a long batt…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:58AMActor Jason Collins discusses his "Only Love Will Do," and other everyday details of his life.
SOURCE: Adaumbelle’s Quest at 11:53AMCasting, currently running at the Mossoviet, is about a group of dancers who come together to audition for parts in a musical. The show, a loosely based adaptation of A Chorus Line, has gott…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:44AMPARIS — Slipshod, careless, haphazard: This is how Édouard Manet’s more generous critics saw his endeavors during his lifetime. The public, when it wasn’t laughing, mo…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM“Bella Figura,’’ the contemporary program that Boston Ballet opens on Thursday at the Boston Opera House, comprises three pieces: Jirí Kylián’s “Bella…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMEL ANATSUI : WHEN I LAST WROTE TO YOU ABOUT AFRICA The first career retrospective by this celebrated artist, born in Ghana and resident of Nigeria, best known for large-scale wall sculptures…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMSpecial Effects Designer Gregory Meeh uses a vast array of technologies to build illusions for live stage productions. He has created pyrotechnic explosions and atmospheric effects such as r…
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 11:15AMOk, this was my favorite contest yet. Usually I pick the winners at random, but this time, I've gotta reward some of the amazing creativity out there. When I asked what living politician you…
SOURCE: The Producer's Perspective at 11:00AM
Daniel Radcliffe and John Larroquette, currently starring in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, talked to Meredith Vieira on the “Today Show” about taking on the 5…
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:31AMAn overly loud, not very funny, intermittently tuneful, reimagined so-so version of Alice in Wonderland.
SOURCE: Talk Entertainment at 08:30AMThe life-story of Larry Kramer, AIDS activist, author and playwright, finally makes it to Broadway - a late, but welcome addition to the spring season. Having had several off-Broadway …
SOURCE: Act Three - The Reviews at 08:29AMDaniel Radcliffe and the cast from the Broadway musical "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will perform on the TODAY plaza on April 22, 2010
SOURCE: The Today Show at 08:16AMEvery weekend I'm going to post some of the youtube clips that I come
across that I especially love -- those that give me goosebumps, touch
my heart or make me laugh.The touring production…
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 08:00AMHere are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on April 23 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events
SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 08:00AMLegit News: Auds latch on to 'Hat,' 'Catch' -- A trio of queens became box office royalty, a jet-age swindler's show took off despite downbeat reviews, and auds finally started noticing that…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Road grosses -- Four of the 11 shows pulled in more than $1 million in Week 47 (April 11-17).
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit News: Pair play off basketball court rivalry -- If the producers of the Broadway play "Lombardi" were professional athletes, they'd probably be offensive linemen, since Tony Ponturo an…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit Reviews: Kathleen Turner is a dirty-talking, no-nonsense nun whose expert counseling skills are stretched when she takes on a gay teenaged junkie and street hustler facing jail time.
SOURCE: Variety at 08:00AMLegit Reviews: There is a distinct lack of wonder in "Wonderland," Frank Wildhorn's musical based on Lewis Carroll's wildly inventive and delectably fantastical characters.
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American Theater Company in Chicago revives the internationally popular musical Grease as few have seen it before. A production dubbed The Original Grease — the R-rated original 1971 v…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AMTony Award winner Jason Robert Brown's coming-of-age musical 13, which played a limited Broadway run in 2008, makes its New York return in a revised production April 23 at the McGinn/Caz…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMRubicon Theatre Company in Ventura, CA, introduces its audiences to the roots and branches of American folk music with the world premiere of Lonesome Traveler, opening April 23 following pre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMOriginal Rent stars Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp will be seen in Adam and Anthony! Live in Concert! June 13 at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMBritish actor Adam Godley, whose "gypsy" is revealed in the Broadway revival of Anything Goes, talks about playing light comedy.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTony Award-winning director Joe Mantello, who currently heads the cast of Broadway's The Normal Heart, stages a starry one-night-only presentation of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AMTomorrow Morning, Laurence Mark Wythe's musical about "coupling and uncoupling," seen in London and Chicago, concludes its New York City run at The York Theatre Company's h…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM1564 Okay, no one's actually certain that April 23, 1564 was William Shakespeare's birthday, but that's the accepted date. Over the next 52 years, the Bard would pen such works a…
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